WORLD DEFENCE SYSTEMS ISSUE TWELVE The International Review of Defence Acquisition Issues Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London

Articles

• Foreword
  Dr Paul Cornish, Editor, World Defence Systems, Director, Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College London
• Ten Questions... An Interview with Lord Bach
  Interviewer: Dr Andrew Dorman
  Respondent: Lord Bach of Lutterworth, Undersecretary of State and Minister for Defence Procurement

Special Section: Defence Policy after Iraq

• Transformed Warfare: Who’s in Charge?
  Paul Cornish
• Implications of Iraq for British Defence Policy
  Keith Simpson MP, Shadow Defence Minister
• Asymmetric Lessons in Iraq
  Dr Rod Thornton

Strategic Landscape

• Shifts in Turkish Foreign Policy
  Bill Park
• NATO, Europe, the US and Qualified Division of Labour
  Heinz Gärtner
• Putin’s Russia: Towards A New Combination Of Military And Foreign Policies
  Dr Thomas Gomart

Operational Concepts and Doctrine

• Depleting the Elite: The Impact of Privatised Security on Special Operations Forces
  Christopher Spearin
• Centrifugal Forces? Some Strategic Implications of Changing Defence Structures in the Nordic Countries
  Niklas Granholm
• Coalition Warfare: A New Framework of Analysis Required?
  Thomas S Wilkins

Technology and Communications

• The EU and Satellite Monitoring
  Iain Shepherd and Brian Routledge
• Project FALCON: A Key Enabler for NEC
  Andrew Simpson
• Who Knows Spins: The Politicisation of Risk-based Intelligence
  Dr David Martin Jones and Dr Mike Smith

Defence Acquisition

• Location, Location! Does it Matter Who Owns the UK Defence Industry?
  Prof. Keith Hayward
• The Changing Face of Prime Contracting
  Alexander Nicoll
• Together in the Same Boat: Shared Platforms for an Effective Defence
  Etienne de Durand
• First Reflections on the New White Paper: Implications for Industry
  Dr Andrew Dorman

Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism

• Whither Resilience?
  David Livingstone MBE DSC
• Airline Security
  Ian Hibberd
• Animal-Rights Terrorism and the Demise of Political Debate
  Bill Durodié
• Counter Terrorism Training: “Knowing Your Enemy” is not Enough
  Lt Col (rtd) HO ‘Dave’ Walters MBE
• The Transformation of the UK Emergency Planning College
  Michael Charlton-Weedy

 

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